Bigotry Quotes

It is my sincere opinion that our precious time on earth should not be spent attempting to justify unbelievable acts of cruelty, death, and disease as a part of 'God’s Plan' or the greater good — and clinging to ancient texts that preach ill-concealed bigotry and sexism. Instead, we should find ways to make this life happy and satisfying, without regard to the unknowable nature of an afterlife.

~ David G. Mcafee

One of the biggest contradictions in self-proclaimed open-mindedness is to say that we're all one but when a true bigot comes around tell him we're all different. It's usually the case that neither side is correct. One might have the right to do something, anything, but sure enough, that doesn't mean it's right and a benefit to other people.

~ Criss Jami

Mainly, it’s not that there are things you can’t say. It’s that there are things you can’t say without the risk that people who previously lacked a voice might use their own freedom of speech to object.

~ Oliver Burkeman

A tense account of the perils facing those who sought freedom in the lead-up to the Civil War.

~ Publisher’s Weekly

An antisemite is a person who hates Jews more than is absolutely necessary.

~ Jewish Proverb

I am 52 years of age. I am a bishop in the Anglican Church and a few people might be constrained to say that I was reasonably responsible. In the land of my birth I cannot vote.

~ Bishop Desmond Tutu

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighbourhood after dark.

~ Dick Gregory

It is a great shock at the age of 5 or 6 to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

~ James Baldwin

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him and cannot be reasoned out.

~ Sydney Smith

Since my little daughter is only half Jewish would it be alright if she went into the pool only up to her waist?

~ Groucho Marx

There are only two ways to be quite unprejudiced and impartial. One is to be completely ignorant. The other is to be completely indifferent.

~ Charles Curtis

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

~ William Hazlitt

Passion and prejudice govern the world only under the name of reason.

~ John Wesley

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

~ Edward R. Murrow

We are chameleons and our partialities and prejudices change places with an easy and blessed facility.

~ Mark Twain

Fortunately for serious minds a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.

~ A. Eustace Haydon

Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room.

~ William Hazlitt

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

~ H. L. Mencken

We hate some persons because we do not know them and will not know them because we hate them.

~ Charles Caleb Colton

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye the more light you pour upon it the more it will contract.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation as coloured Americans are living inside America. A nation cannot live confident of its tomorrow if its refugees are among its own citizens.

~ Pearl Buck

Of all the injuries inflicted by racism on people of colour the most corrosive is the wound within the internalized racism that leads some victims at unspeakable cost to their own sense of self to embrace the values of their oppressors.

~ H. Jack Geiger